English Vocabulary Lessons - Advanced English - #27 Obligatory
required, necessary, binding, mandatory, compulsory
Obligatory duties are those you must perform to fulfil an obligation or responsibility.
Doing miscellaneous paperwork is an obligatory function of clerical work.
Obligatory describes something you do because you have to, not because you want to.
When you buy a car, you have to fill out the obligatory forms.
In many homes, saying please and thank you is obligatory.
Obligatory derives from the verb oblige, as in "after she was so nice, I felt obliged to give her a present."
Some people feel burdened by lives of common obligation, giving presents, returning phone calls, eating birthday cake, attending religious services––none of which they feel any genuine desire to do.
"Primary education is obligatory."
"He made all the obligatory apologies."
"Attendance is obligatory."
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